# Council Directive 1999/37/EC of 29 April 1999 on the registration documents for vehicles, Article 2

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

For the purposes of this Directive:
(a) ‘vehicle’: shall mean any vehicle as defined in Article 2 of Council Directive 70/156/EEC of 6 February 1970 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the type-approval of motor vehicles and their trailers and in Article 1 of Council Directive 92/61/EEC of 30 June 1992 relating to the type-approval of two or three-wheel motor vehicles;
(b) ‘registration’: shall mean the administrative authorisation for the entry into service in road traffic of a vehicle, involving the identification of the latter and the issuing to it of a serial number, to be known as the registration number;
(c) ‘registration certificate’: shall mean the document which certifies that the vehicle is registered in a Member State;
(d) ‘holder of the registration certificate’: shall mean the person in whose name a vehicle is registered;
(e) ‘ suspension ’ : means a limited period of time in which a vehicle is not authorised by a Member State to be used in road traffic following which – provided the reasons for suspension have ceased to apply – it may be authorised to be used again without involving a new process of registration;
(f) ‘ cancellation of a registration ’ : means the cancellation of a Member State’s authorisation for a vehicle to be used in road traffic.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1999/37/article/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1999-37/article-2
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